From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 26 11:17:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C25737B401 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:17:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA7130; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:22:07 -0800 Message-ID: <3A9AABC2.24FCC6B5@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:17:22 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Godfrey Anonical Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Screen Resolution in KDE (FreeBSD) References: <1077EA82B488D31193FB0008C724A284AC721F@EXCHANGE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Godfrey Anonical wrote: > > Hello, I just recenly installed freebsd and am using KDE. The problem is the > output screen on my monitor is only displaying a portion of the entire > desktop. I have to scroll down just to see the panel on the bottom of the > screen (default). Did I do something wrong during the Xfree86 configuration? > Please advise. Thank you This is what is known as a "virtual desktop". If you used the xf86config command to setup X, then this is what you get by default. The XF86Setup command doesn't give you this. Take a look at the X11 section in the FreeBSD Handbook for ways to fix this. It involves editing the XF86Config file. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message